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A meeting ofAidid's senior cabinet
may take place today at 1500 hours.
:21:23
l say ''may'' because we all know by now...
:21:26
...with the intel we get on the street,
nothing is certain.
:21:30
This is actual intel
confirmed by three sources.
:21:33
Two tier-one personalities may be present:
:21:37
Omar Salad, Aidid's top political advisor...
:21:41
...and Abdi Hassan Awale, interior minister.
:21:44
These are the guys we're after.
:21:46
Today we go.
:21:48
Same mission template as before.
:21:51
1545, Assault Force Delta
will infiltrate the target building...
:21:55
...and seize all suspects within.
:21:58
Security Force Rangers: 4 Ranger chalks,
under command of Capt. Steele...
:22:02
...will rope in at 1546...
:22:04
...and hold a four-corner perimeter
around the target building.
:22:08
No one gets in or out.
:22:10
Extraction Force:
:22:12
Lt. Colonel McKnight's humvee column
will drive in at 1547...
:22:16
...on Hawlwadig Road
and hold just short of the Olympic Hotel.
:22:20
Wait for the green light.
:22:22
Now once Delta gives the word...
:22:24
...McKnight's column will go to the target
and load the prisoners onto trucks.
:22:29
lmmediately after
the prisoners are loaded...
:22:32
...the four Ranger chalks
will collapse back to the target building...
:22:36
...load up on humvees...
:22:38
...and the entire ground force
will exfil the 3 miles back to base.
:22:42
Mission time, no longer than 30 minutes.
:22:46
Now, l had requested light armor
and AC-130 Spectre gunships...
:22:51
...but Washington, in all its wisdom,
decided against this.
:22:56
Too high-profile.
:22:58
So Black Hawks and Little Birds
will provide the air cover...